“I have a strong belief that we’re going to come together as a group and be ready to take it to another level,” the 44-year-old Serb says.
Darko Rajakovic talked a bit about the biomechanics of basketball players at his introductory media session as theHe has helped develop some of game’s top young players and has co-authored an academic-level treatise on how to run an effective pick-and-roll play.from Serbia obviously has the Xs and Os portion of the job down pat. But it was far more that drew him to the Raptors, something that is becoming more and more necessary with the march of time and the evolution of athletes.
“ talked to a lot of the teams that recently hired head coaches and I think you’re starting to see a bit of that philosophy,” Webster said after Rajakovic made his first public Toronto appearance Tuesday afternoon. “I think we are seeing a bit more of that approach with the players, sort of an interpersonal approach and getting to know them.”
“How do you manage them?” Webster said, referring to the next generation of NBA players that’s coming up. “How do you criticize them? How do you support them and pump them up? And I think that’s a really important skill. And I think Darko has it.”and began an exhaustive and lengthy search for a replacement: a new feel around a roster that seemed to go stale in the last 18 months.
“I want to be very invested in them as human beings,” Rajakovic said. “I see every player as a person with family. Whatever is going on in those lives, I want those guys to know and to feel that I really care about them.
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